-Who you gonna call? The chinese restaurant downstairs… I saw the reincarnation of Ghostbusters last week but had to wait for almost a week to digest it, and to watch it again just to see if I felt the same the second time?… Ok, I had read a couple of reviews and I’ve followed the debate prior to Ghostbusters release and I wasn’t exactly sure what to think about this reincarnation. I would have loved a proper Ghostbusters with the original cast but this seemed impossible with script rejections and cast members not exactly on board, so I guess we should be happy with what we got… or? I saw a photograph with the cast & crew from Ghostbusters a few months back and it was a very feministic approach to say the least, but that doesn’t mean bad by default – quite the opposite there are many talented female film workers out there and I couldn’t care less what sex the director have, or any another person involved. But if an all male crew would’ve portaited all female actors as stupid in a movie things would get ugly fast and here we have an all female crew & cast apart from a few male actors – who are all really stupid?! This was a cheap move and made the movie worse that it already was. This new Ghostbusters movie is pretty much just a remake of the original movie, with a few differences. Gone is the old cast and in with four women. Sadly the acting was a bit so-so at best and the script was… well, not exactly exciting or thrilling and you could predict every little step throughout the whole ordeal. The (new) Ghostbusters are Abby Yates (Melissa McCarthy) and Erin Gilbert (Kristen Wiig), Jillian Holtzmann (Kate McKinnon) and Patty Tolan (Leslie Jones) and their utterly stupid receptionist Kevin (Chris Hemsworth). Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig are pretty solid actors so they did most of the lifting, and Chris Hemsworth was funny at times but his character was so pathetic that it didn’t matter what he did because nothing made it funny. Ok, his “portfolio” of photos was funny but that was about it… An estranged guy, played by Neil Casey, is attracting ghosts in order to create an apocalypse and our Ghostbusters set out to foil...

Rocky five…. …thousand!!! (Reference from Spaceballs as a hint about doing the same bloody movie over and over again.) I’ve wondered for a while now when the next new hit-movie was going to surface but when scanning the horizon all I’ve seen have been re-runs and follow-ups. Nothing new, nothing exciting and chances are that any new groundbreaking movie will sadly drown in amongst all these re-runs… It’s like Hollywood just run out of ideas and are now churning out copies of what they did last year. And the year before that. And the year before that. And so on… Here is a selection of the 2017 movie lineup. (ok, some will be in 2018…) Re-runs and follow-ups galore – and the list isn’t even far from complete! Alien Covenant Avatar 2 Beetlejuice 2 (this might be fake) Chucky 7 Deadpool 2 Despicable Me 3 Divergent – Ascendant Fast and the Furious 8 Friday the 13:th Guardians of the Galaxy 2 Incredibles 2 Iron Man 4 (rumoured) IT Jumanji Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Men Tell No Tales Power Rangers Resident Evil: The Final Chapter Spider Man The Croods 2 The Hunger Games: The Dark Days The Lego Batman Movie The Maze Runner: The Death Cure The Nut Job 2 Thor Ragnarök Toy Story 4 Transformers War for the Planet of the Apes Wolverine Wonder Woman World War Z 2 XXX: Return of Xander Cage Don’t get me wrong – some of these movies are going to be great, and the kids will surely love both the new Lego movie and the sequel of Incredibles, and who doesn’t love Despicable Me? But – is it so hard to come up with new characters and plots? The Marvel universe has passed its best-before-date imho and it’s getting a bit boring actually… How many more Iron Man will be exciting? (even if they kill Tony Stark and put Harley Keener in the “suit”…) Avengers? X-Men spinoffs? Even Pirates of the Caribbean has lost its magic… Ok, some movies does deserve a sequel like Deadpool, The LEGO Movie and the Alien prequel saga to mention a few, but XXX: Return of Xander Cage? Come on! No inspiration at all over there? Please Hollywood – have a few parties for the script writers (and perhaps throw in some drugs or something 😉 ) because they...

They’re back – and so is the cast… Well, almost… 20 years ago Independence Day was released on the silver screen and it was a huge success. Really good casting, script, story and FX for its time. A pretty descent action/sci-fi/comedy movie! Now here we are, 20 years later, and it’s time for the reboot of the story – and the obvious second attempt by the evil aliens to harvest planet earth…...

Ali G and Borat goes to 11… The Brothers Grimsby and the character Nobby is the latest alter-ego by Sacha Baron Cohen – and this time he’s taken rude to a whole new level! I’m not easily affected by rude language or explicit scenes, but this movie even made me cringe more than once by the extremely rude scenes in this movie – and the trailers had shown nothing of this so I saw it with the boys, whom both...

This is the story about the anti-hero that still saves the day and get the girl in the end! Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and Marvel Entertainment are certainly scraping the barrel now as a last and final resort to cash in whatever’s left to cash in after Iron Man, Captain America and the rest of the Avengers are about to reach their respective best-before-dates. This was blatantly obvious with “Ant Man” and...

Alien invasion and kids try to save the planet, or whatever it was supposed to be?… Some time ago I read an early review about The 5th Wave that it was supposed to be an “yet another alien invasion movie – but this one catered for the family as the audience, and blood & gore was replaced by exciting acting and brave kids! It didn’t exactly register on my “next-to-watch” movie but there...

Two FBI agents, Fox Mulder the believer and Dana Scully the skeptic, investigate the strange and unexplained while hidden forces work to impede their efforts. The TV-series X-Files with Mulder and Scully is finally(?) back after a 13 year long hiatus, and it required quite a lot of demand and money I guess… So why the question mark then next to the word “finally”? Honestly, I was sceptical to this as soon as it was...

Inside Out – a movie about the feelings inside… and their constant conflicts… I saw the trailer for Inside Out prior to its release and I have to say it didn’t register. If I had known it was a Pixar movie I would’ve seen it earlier but I must’ve missed that information and quickly forgot about it. A few days ago I stumbled upon a review of Inside Out and it had scored 5 out of 5 – so after a...